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The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday had to determine how best to read Section 510 of the Employment Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 to rule whether a former vice president of Junior Achievement of Central Indiana was fired because of
his protests about the company’s failure to deposit money into his retirement account.

A witness’s testimony from a man’s murder trial and the deposition testimony of another unavailable witness were
correctly allowed at the man’s second murder trial, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

Even though the severity of the 13 charges against a Knox County man for his role in several home invasions supports setting
his bond at $25,000 cash only, the Indiana Court of Appeals concluded that the trial court should have allowed him to post
a percentage of that to bond out.

The Indiana Court of Appeals was divided on whether an Indianapolis car dealership was entitled to summary judgment on a buyer’s
lawsuit that made Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act, Crime Victims Relief Act, and fraud claims.

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that a Hamilton Superior Judge erred in granting an injured worker’s motion to dismiss
a company’s action on whether it was liable to pay workers’ compensation to the injured man, who worked for another
company.

A Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to rape and abuse of a child in that state in 1984 will argue before the Indiana Court
of Appeals Wednesday that he should not have to register in Indiana, where he now lives.

The Indiana Court of Appeals determined that the Jeffersonville director of planning and zoning and the city building commissioner
are public officers under Indiana Code 34-11-2-6. The judges discovered there is no state law defining public officer under
this statute.

A Wabash County YMCA proved it was entitled to summary judgment on a negligence claim filed by a 17-year-old teen injured
while sliding into a base during a softball game on property owned by the YMCA, the Indiana Court of Appeals held.

Indiana Chief Justice Brent Dickson has appointed Justice Mark Massa chairman of the St. Joseph Superior Court Judicial Nominating
Commission. Massa is filling the vacancy left by former Justice Frank Sullivan, who recently left the bench to teach.

The Gibson Circuit Court committed fundamental error in terminating the parental rights of a mother and father over their
young child, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Friday. The Department of Child Services admitted that it failed to comply
with statute when filing the petition to terminate their parental rights.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced Thursday that the state will get nearly $4.5 million from Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Inc. to settle claims that the company illegally marketed its drug, Risperdal.

A lawsuit brought by parents against the Department of Child Services and Evansville Police Department for not informing them
of their daughter’s molestation led each judge on the Court of Appeals panel to write his or her own opinion. The only
thing the judges agreed on is that the police department is not a proper party to the case.

Although a Starke Circuit Court correctly rejected a legal survey performed on land owned by a trust, the special judge did
err by imposing two prior surveys to establish boundary lines of the property, the Indiana Court of Appeals held.

The mining company that hired a truck company as a contractor is considered an insured under the truck company’s insurance
policy with regards to an injured trucking employee, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

The judges in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Indiana have amended local bankruptcy rules, with the changes
taking effect Oct. 1. The court is also considering the addition of five local rules.

Although a District Court’s grant of the habeas petition of a man claiming he didn’t have an impartial jury was
reversed by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the case was sent back to the lower court for the state to show that the jury
was not prejudiced.

They arrived on yellow school buses as visitors Wednesday afternoon but someday the high school students may come as law students.
The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Shortridge Magnet High School for Law and Public Policy inked
a partnership that will put McKinney faculty and students in Shortridge classrooms and bring Shortridge students to McKinney.